1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.